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Page twelve + -------- History of Adams Township continued need is going to be provided for and Adams Township is truly going to be one of the best in the state. —Elizabeth Bradfield. School Punishment 85 Years Ago On a certain occasion two turkeys were brought to Noblesville, during school session, and the owner concluded to have a shooting match. The turkeys were put up at so much a shot. The number of shots to correspond with the value of the turkey, and the best shot to take the turkey. It so happened that this shooting match took place at the noon hour, two of the largest male scholars of said school witnessing the same, during which time the turkeys were duly inspected by them. On their return to the school house instead of applying themselves to the study of the lessons before them, they concluded to discuss the turkey gobblers. The length of their legs, their beautiful beard had been discussed, and they were about to discuss other features of the birds, but were arrested and their discussion cut short by the teacher informing them that was not part of their lessons for that day, but now, says the teacher “what shall be done with the unruly boys?” The teacher had a table about four feet long and two and a half feet wide in the room. He had a two-inch auger hole bored in one of the puncheons in the floor. So he took one of the boys to the table, laying him down lengthwise on the same, drew his hands and feet down as well as he could and tied them together under the table. The other boy he required to lie down flat upon the floor near the auger hole and gaze steadily down through the augerhole. Thus they remained for the next thirty minutes, which was regarded by the teacher as sufficient punishment, when they were released. This, no doubt, will appear to the teachers and pupils of today as being very harsh, but such was the discipline eighty-five years ago in our schools. The Centennial Syllabus
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Page eleven --------4 - History of Adams Township continued site Dr. Moore’s store. These men later sold to other parties. Hamilton Emmons started the first drug store in the town. John Francis was the first to establish an exclusive grocery store. May Emmons 1 ad the first millinery business in the town. Uncle Tom and Aunt Prude Kercheval kept the first boarding house and entertained travelers. Uncle Tom Kercheval also had the first dray in Sheridan. Old Mr. Sackman started the first undertaker’s business on the corner of Georgia and Third streets. On May 4, 1913, a great conflagration swept the town which destroyed several business houses. The fire started in the Weaver planing mill and with the wind blowing at the rate of forty miles an hour it was impossible to stay the flames rapid advance over the place. This fire necessitated the reconstruction of the business houses that were destroyed and in many cases the location of the building was changed so that Main street began to look more like it does today. Some changes have been made since, such as th» razing of old buildings the construction of filling stations and the erection of new street lights on Main street. The first school house near Sheridan was built by George Boxley on his farm for the instruction of his own children and those of his neighbors. He himself was an efficient teacher. In this rude log school house, one end of which was taken up with a large fireplace, was the beginning of the schools of Sheridan. Mr. J. O. Pearson gives the following personal recollection of the house and scholars: “The windows had sticks across them with paper on them and were greased to ad mit the light. The seats were split cut and hand-shaved, with wooden pins for legs. The door was of shaved boards. The one long desk was a long plank on pins in the wall. There was John McKinzie, F. M McKinzie, Mrs. S. A. Vickery, Peter D. Horn. Nelson Higbee’s uncles and aunts, Ellis Dean’s mother, Howard Stephenson’s mother, P. G. Pearson and Addison Boxley.” In 1850 the Dunn school house was built near the Rodeman corner. Isaac Underwood was the only teacher who taught in this house for a number of years. In 1869 what was known as the Rodeman school house was built. It was a two room building. A particular circumstance connected with the building of this house was that the trustee refused to build the house unless Mr. E. A. Hutchens would agree to teach the school. The consent of Mr. Hutchens was secured, the house erected and Mr. Hutchens was the teacher for the next five years. With the building of the Monon railroad the growth of the town was assured. The trustee in 1885 was Eli Hutchens. He purchased the ground where the second ward building now stands, and Henry Devaney, his successor, erected the building in 1886. The growth of the town was very rapid and consequently the growth of the school was equally rapid. The building erected in 1886 contained four rooms, which was not adequate for the attendance the first year, and an addition of four mora rooms was built and more teachers added. In 1895 the first ward build ing was erected. Tl is was a substantial brick building containing four rooms. The town continued to grow and the high school outgrew its quarters. In 1912, the town board erected an addition to the first ward building to which the high school was removed. This building, however began to grow inadequate as the student body increased and the standards for the high school grew higher. In the beginning of the twentieth century the new school house proposition began to be agitated. However no steps had been taken until on January 30, 1928 the High School building burned down. Every one was sorry for the loss but they realized that this means a modern building for Adams Township. Our one great
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